Title from original photograph album. July 4th flag raising on the Jesse Lee Home grounds in Seward, Alaska, with Boy Scouts and a large crowd in attendance. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." July 4, 1950. Original photograph...
A crowd is gathered on the street, possibly for a Fourth of July celebration. People are swinging on a swing set nearby. The Miners & Merchants Bank can be seen in the background (right).
Title from verso. View of a large assembly of automobiles, identified as mostly Fords, parked in a grassy field. Appear to be predominantly Ford Model Ts. Men in suits and hats can be seen standing between the cars. Hills are visible in the...
Title from verso. View of car races at a 4th of July celebration in Fairbanks in 1917. Formally dressed men and women are sitting on bleachers behind the racing track. Several of the women are holding parasols. Photo may have been taken...
Shows Smart Lake, Sifton Lake, Lac Du Bois and the waterway between them. Annotated. From Department of the Interior annual report for 1901. Compass rose. In color.
Published in [Ottawa] by the Canada Dept. of the Interior in 1901....
Title from image. Photograph shows a charter for the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 4. Charter reads "Ecce Novum Astrum, Pioneers of Alaska, Reposing confidence in the following named persons, now residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, we do hereby...
Photograph label reads: "The railroad, under Mr. Browne's administration would have been nearly completed and large sums would have been saved for the Government had it not been hampered by the laxity of Congress in meeting...
Photograph label reads: "Work was continually hampered and great losses sustained by work under construction being shut down and Mr. Browne's plans inte[r]rupted."
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from caption. Photograph shows a cabin and a tent along a river, a large farm animal can be seen along the bank. Caption also reads: "No. 87. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Title from caption. Photograph shows group of nine men in front of the store at Residency 4, at mile 373 on August 28th, 1917. A couple of horses can also be seen. Caption also reads: "No. 88. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Title by cataloger. Photograph of a recently constructed birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "After the sewing, all seams are covered with a mixture of pitch, gathered from the trees, cooked with grease. This hardens but is...
Title from caption. Photograph shows men building the frame of warehouse no. 4 in Nenana, Alaska. Caption reads: "No. 52. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.".
Title from caption. Photograph shows the construction camp of residency no. 4 on April 6th, 1918. The camp is set up in a forested area. Tents are set up next to piles of firewood. Caption also reads: "No. 116, A. J. Johnson, Official...